Jimmy Kimmel, called “an insufferable and absurd propaganda puppet” by Elon Musk earlier this week, has hit back at the Tesla CEO. He said it takes one to know one.
The Emmy-winning late-night host threw Musk’s shadow on social media Thursday, mocking his opening monologue that “the guy who was paying people a million dollars a day to vote for Donald Trump is calling me a propaganda puppet.”
“Listen Kermit, you bought Twitter,” Kimmel Musk criticized. “You have purchased a social media platform that is literally a propaganda machine. »
Musk, who acquired the social media platform for $44 million end of 2022, called Kimmel a ‘propaganda puppet’ Thursday morning, after the comedian’s post-election monologue went viral on Wednesday. The tech billionaire too expressed similar opinions on music and entertainment celebrities supporting “puppet Kamala” days before the election.
In Wednesday’s emotional speech, Kimmel mourned the results of the presidential election and expressed concerns about the situation. consequences four more years under former President Trump, who defeated Vice President Kamala Harris to secure a second term.
“It was a terrible night for women, for children, for the hundreds of thousands of hard-working immigrants who keep this country going, for health care, for our climate, for science, for journalism, for justice, for freedom of expression. » Kimmel said during his first post-election show. “It was a terrible night for the poor, for the middle class, for the elderly who depend on social security, for our allies in Ukraine, for NATO, for truth, democracy and decency. And it was a terrible night for everyone who voted against him. And guess what? It was also a bad night for everyone who voted for him. You just don’t realize it yet.
Kimmel has long been a critic of Trump, using his late-night spot not only to mock the president-elect but also to share the impact of the former reality TV star’s politics on his personal life. Kimmel urged viewers in 2020 to consider the Republican Party’s plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which would negatively impact people with pre-existing conditions, including her son Billy who lives with a congenital heart condition. On Thursday, Kimmel compared the current political mood to “standing in the middle of the road waiting for a bus to hit us when it’s still 60 miles away.”
During his opening monologue, Kimmel also blasted Musk for his previous tweets calling out media organizations such as the Washington Post, the New York Times and the Associated Press propaganda machines. “AP stands for Associated Propaganda,” Musk wrote in a September tweet. Kimmel also mocked Musk’s commitment to Trump, citing the 2022 president-elect’s Truth Social message that painted Musk desperate for government subsidies.
“I could have said, ‘Get on your knees and beg,’ and he would have done it,” Trump wrote two years ago.
Musk’s relationship with Trump wasn’t the only one in Kimmel’s crosshairs Thursday. The comedian also attacked Musk’s family life. Musk is the father of 12 children from relationships with several women. Her daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson, who is transgender, pronounced against Musk several times. More recently, Wilson wrote Thursday, his father is a “delusional, dirty little control freak who hasn’t matured as a person in 38 years.”
“At least my kids like me,” Kimmel also said Thursday.
